Word: galveston
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...study of the Galveston plan as the original type of the commission system...
...spoke before both houses of the state legislature and addressed the local Business League on "Municipal Government." At San Antonio, on February 26, he was present at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. After spending four days at Houston and Galveston he left for New Orleans, where he delivered the Founders' Day address at Tulane University and received the honorary degree of LL.D...
...Ph.D. '93, of the University of Texas. On February 26 he will be present in San Antonio at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. He will spend the next three days at Houston, from where he will probably go to Galveston...
...will accept the positions if elected. President Eliot is of the opinion that the efficient citizen will accept, given conditions under which he may serve his city honestly and well. Another method of increasing municipal efficiency is to lengthen the term of office. In the new charters adopted by Galveston, Houston and Des Moines, this is done, and the chiefs of the city departments hold office for long periods. The three fundamental fea tures, however, of the system under which reform can best be secured are one chamber of delegates, a group of men at the head of the city...
...present commission system of city government dates from the Galveston flood, when that city adopted it in her crisis. In Iowa the city of Des Moines has taken it up, and Newport, with a council of 200 men from her five wards, is a very successful example...